Mormon Mentality is happy to have DCcLemon as a guest blogger. Â DCcLemon is a long time lurker, first time poster. Â She’s looking forward to leaving lurkerhood and joining the conversation. Â Perhaps her example will encourage other lurkers to comment on occasion.

A bit of background information would perhaps be useful. Â She’s a married mother of three, works part-time, and her current priority is getting her youngest to sleep through the night.

It was recommended by one of my law professors when she found out we couldn’t get our daughter to sleep for longer than 2 hour stints at night and 20 minute naps during the day. She was 10 months old at the time.

Jota- thank you. I will have to get that book. He is currently 3 and1/2 months old, and in the past we have done the ferber method when they are around 6 months old. But with him, I am just getting a little desperate.

I believe Dr. Weissbluth starts his advice younger than 6 months. Some things I remember taking away from the book: 1. correct sleep patterns are not instinctual, usually they must be learned and bad habits must be unlearned (thus the importance of starting early), 2. night sleep must be normalized before napping becomes normalized, 3. you must be overprotective of your children’s sleep schedule, 4. Children who do not sleep through the night are overtired and should be put to bed earlier, 5. no harm will come to the child if you decide to allow her to sooth herself back to sleep (assuming there are no other problems), and 6. there are significant medical and behavioral benefits when a child gets enough sleep.